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The Great Power Struggle in East Asia, 1944-50, Britain, America and Post-War RivalryBy Christopher Baxter. In the series Global Conflict and Security Since 1945, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 250 pages including endnotes, bibliography and index, ISBN: 978-0-230-20297-9, £55. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi.
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Toad’s Oil (ガマの油)Directed by Yakusho Koji (役所 広司). 2008, 131 minutes. Review by Susan Meehan.
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Nagata-cho vs. Kasumigaseki [永田町ＶＳ霞が関]By Yoichi Masuzoe [舛添要一]. Kodansha, 2007, 253 pages, ISBN：978-4-06-214042-3, 1500 yen.
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Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster’s DaughterBy Shizuka Tendo. Routledge, 2006, 234 pages including photographs, ISBN: 9784770030429, Hardback £13.99p. Review by William Farr.
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Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido – Hiroshige/EisenBy Sebastian Izzard. George Braziller Publisher (New York), 2008, 159 pages, Introduction, map, select bibliography, 70 full-colour prints, ISBN978-0-8076-1593-5, US$80. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi.
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Nihon no Rekishi wo Eigode Yomu [日本の歴史を英語で読む] (Reading Japanese History in English)Akinori Endo [遠藤 昭則] and Henry Buckley. Besutoshinsho, 2009, 192 pages, ISBN: 978-4-12225-9, 740 yen. Review by Sean Curtin.
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How I Caused the Credit Crunch: An Insider’s Story of the Financial MeltdownBy Tetsuya Ishikawa. Icon Books Ltd, 2009, ISBN 978-1848310674, £8.99. Review by Natasha Hamilton.
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Japan in Late Victorian London: The Japanese Native Village in Knightsbridge and The Mikado, 1885By Sir Hugh Cortazzi. Sainsbury Institute, 2009, 100 pages including 16 plates, 12 illustrations, bibliography and index, ISBN: 0-9545921-1-5. Review by Sean Curtin.
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Japan in Late Victorian London: The Japanese Native Village in Knightsbridge and The Mikado, 1885By Sir Hugh Cortazzi. Sainsbury Institute, 2009, 100 pages including 16 plates, 12 illustrations, bibliography and index, ISBN: 0-9545921-1-5. Review by Sean Curtin.
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Nagasaki: The British Experience, 1854-1945By Brian Burke Gaffney. Global Oriental, 2009, 288 pages including index, bibliography, notes and 66 illustrations in colour and black and white, ISBN 978-1-906876-13-5. Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi.